Vulgar Marxism

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Vulgar Marxism refers to a particular "belief that one can directly access the real conditions of history" and is sometimes referred to as reflection theory.[1] In 1998, Robert M. Young defined "economism or vulgar Marxism" as "the most orthodox [position in Marxism which] provides one-to-one correlations between the socio-economic base and the intellectual superstructure".[a][2][3]

Overview

technocratic" vulgar Marxism with Marx's response to the Gotha programme. Benjamin wrote: "Suspecting the worst, Marx responded that human being, who owned no other property aside from his labor-power, 'must be the slave of other human beings'".[4]

reductionist vulgar Marxism".[6]

John Phillips states that Julia Kristeva understands "vulgar Marxism" as synonymous with "vulgar sociologism", a view that "characterises ideology in terms of a superstructure determined by an economic/historical base (base and superstructure) [sic]".[7] Richard Lewontin explains vulgar Marxism as a form of economic reductionism, in which human expression and knowledge is determined by the form of economic production put upon the group.[8] In other words, that rather than having innate properties, humans are almost exclusively shaped by societal circumstance: "Disease, illness, depression, and the pain of day-to-day living are no more than the inevitable consequence of a capitalist and patriarchal social order."[9]

See also

  • Political economy – Study of the development of social production
    • Classical political economy
       – School of thought in economics
  • Economic determinism – Theory that all societal relationships are based on economic relationships
  • Orthodox Marxism – Body of Marxist thought, prominent until World War I
  • Marxian economics – School of economic thought
  • Revisionism (Marxism) – Set of ideas, principles, and theories based on Marxism

Notes

  1. ^ Young: "The defining feature of Marxist approaches to the history of science is that the history of scientific ideas, of research priorities, of concepts of nature and of the parameters of discoveries are all rooted in historical forces which are, in the last instance, socio-economic. ... There are variations in how literally this is taken ... There is a continuum of positions."

References

  1. ^ Felluga, Dino. "Modules on Marx: On Ideology. Introductory Guide to Critical Theory". Purdue University. Archived from the original on 7 February 2023.
  2. Bishop Grosseteste College
    , Lincoln, United Kingdom
  3. ^ Young, R. M. (1998). "Marxism and the History of Science". The Human Nature Review. Archived from the original on 7 May 2018.
  4. ^ Benjamin, Walter (2005). Theses on the Philosophy of History. Translated by Redmond, Dennis.
  5. ^ Mattick, Paul (1983). "Introduction". Marxism: Last Refuge of the Bourgeoisie?. Merlin Press. Archived from the original on 14 November 2023 – via Marxists Internet Archive.
  6. Public Seminar. Archived from the original
    on 11 January 2024. Retrieved 14 September 2023.
  7. ^ Kristeva, Julia. "The System and the Speaking Subject". National University of Singapore. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023.
  8. ^ Lewontin, Richard (1990). Not In Our Genes. Penguin Books. p. 89.
  9. ^ Lewontin, Richard (1990). Not In Our Genes. Penguin Books. p. 89.
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